"legend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Alexander Vasiliev discarded the account of this campaign as a typical pious legend, whose interest is purely literary rather than historical.
- How can any one call pious legends "traditions"?
- Others regard the story as an example of creative symbolism, or a pious legend.
- "It sounds like a pious legend," he said.
- The pious legend was recorded by George Hamartolus, whose manuscript was an important source for the Primary Chronicle.
- The New Testament Apocrypha and early Christian pseudepigrapha preserve various pious legends filling the "gaps" in Christ's youth.
- Dramatically, the result is unwieldy, mixing the stylized and the naturalistic, interrupting the action to encompass a detail of Scripture or sometimes of pious legend.
- She was the typical Roman matron of ancient legend strong, courageous, modest, witty, pious, fertile and chaste.
- Like Joseph, Nicodemus became the object of various pious legends during the Middle Ages, particularly in connection with monumental crosses.
- The first real biography is by Ahmad Bayhaqi (died 458H/1066) and is filled with what a modernist eye would qualify as pious legends.
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